National Weather Service meteorologists said Saturday that it was unclear how many tornadoes touched down as part of the Friday evening storm system.
The broad storm hit during the evening rush hour, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city.
The storm came up late in the evening and it was the roughest I ever saw.
Dave Samuel, WPRO 630 AM radio meteorologist, said the storm will likely subside by early evening.
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Friday's broad storm in Oklahoma hit during the evening rush hour and stuck around, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city, and dropping so much rain on the area that streets were flooded to a depth of 4 feet.
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The center of the monster storm is expected to make landfall Monday evening near Atlantic City, N.
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We anticipate that the center of the storm is going to land fall sometime this evening.
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"A storm was brewing, but earlier in the evening another DUKW had made this crossing successfully, " said Mr Rios.
The storm started with a massive solar flare Tuesday evening and grew as it raced outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said.
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In Ologa the next evening, conditions looked promising for a storm.
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Well before Oklahoma's first thunderstorms fired up at late afternoon, the Storm Prediction Center in Norman was already forecasting a violent evening.
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After the storm blew through, there was no flooding by late last evening.
This evening, as the core of Sandy moves ashore, the storm will carry with it a gigantic bulge of water that will raise waters levels to the highest storm tides ever seen in over a century of record keeping, along much of the coastline of New Jersey and New York.
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The storm inflicted heavy damage on Botkinburg Foursquare Church in Arkansas, about 90 minutes before evening services.
Late in the evening, the man had the child in some sort of underground bunker or storm shelter, and SWAT team members were communicating with him through a PVC pipe, CNN affiliate WSFA reported.
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